VOCES8: Lully, Lulla, Lullay - Philip Stopford
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- VOCES8 sings Philip Stopford's setting of 'Lully, Lulla, Lullay' in St Stephen's Walbrook Church, London.
Lully, lulla, lully lulla
By by, lully lullay
Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child
By by, lully lullay
O sisters too,
How may we do
For to preserve this day
This poor youngling,
For whom we sing,
By by, lully lullay?
Lully, lulla, lully lulla
By by, lully lullay
Lully, lulla thou little tiny child
By by, lully lullay
Herod, the king,
In his raging,
Charged he hath this day
His men of might,
In his own sight,
All young children to slay.
Lully, lulla, lully lulla
By by, lully lullay
Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child
By by, lully lullay
That woe is me,
Poor child for thee!
And ever morn and day,
For thy parting
Neither say nor sing
By by, lully lullay!
Lully, lulla, lully lulla
By by, lully lullay
Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child
By by, lully lullay
By by, lully lullay
This song got me through a recent miscarriage. I listened at least 20 times a day and grieved. This song spoke to me. I felt connected to the process of saying goodbye to a child that would never grow up. You all sang it beautifully. You captured the nuance of sounding strong in the midst of a horrible ordeal, yet overcome with grief. Thank you so much. It may not sound like much, but your gift really helped me in a very dark time.
👐👐👐👐 im sorry to hear this. I hope that you continue to find peace and healing. 🦋💙🦋
❤️😟
God bless you.
My prayers are with you, please know that. I can't give words of healing, I can only let you know that you have my support, love and prayers. 🙏❤️
It sounds monumental to me. God give you peace.
Being a male growing up in the culture I was raised in, I struggle to let out my emotions through crying. Reading the lyrics and listening to this song gives me the ability to cry that otherwise I wouldn't be able to do. Thank you for the spiritual and emotional release. Your choir is a gift!
I a, so glad that tjos helps you. It I also love how it puts everyone in a calm like state, I sang this for my choir [saprano two] and seeing that everyone was calm and peaceful, they keep talking through out the whole thing but when we preformed this song it was silent. So happy it helped you!
Jesus himself wept, so don’t be afraid to let those emotions come out when you feel the need.
In manlier cultures of old, crying (when there was a legitimate reason) was not a shameful thing for a man. Losing their temper was seen as much more shameful. Pick a book from the XIX century or older; you will see that the heroes sometimes cry, but they never give themselves to anger no matter the circumstances. The villains, on the other hand, are prone to fits of blind rage at the smallest provocation.
LYRICS & EXPLANATION:
An ancient Carol from Coventry, reworked in the 21st century.
British composer Philip Stopford composed this version of the Coventry Carol in 2008.
The original Coventry Carol dates from the 16th century and was traditionally performed in Coventry as part of a mystery play called The Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors.
The rocking lullaby tells the story of the Massacre of the Innocents - when, after the birth of Jesus, King Herod ordered all male infants under the age of two to be killed.
It's sung though from a mother's perspective, as a beautiful lament for her doomed child.
The words are:
Lully, lullay, Thou little tiny Child,
Bye, bye, lully, lullay.
Lullay, thou little tiny Child,
Bye, bye, lully, lullay.
O sisters too, how may we do,
For to preserve this day
This poor youngling for whom we do sing
Bye, bye, lully, lullay.
Herod, the king, in his raging,
Charged he hath this day
His men of might, in his owne sight,
All young children to slay.
That woe is me, poor Child for Thee!
And ever mourn and sigh,
For thy parting neither say nor sing,
Bye, bye, lully, lullay.
Thank you for the words. It makes this hauntingly beautiful song very meaningful
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Thank you for all the information. Your comment is soooo underated....Thank you☺️
Thank you very much! This is the information we all love to get.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us, it enhances the song to understand it’s origin.
The most beautiful, moving, emotional song I have ever heard. Brings tears and gives me goosebumps everytime. Praying for all the innocent children all around the world. May our beloved Lord and the Holy Mary protect them all.
I just realized at the end those really long high notes are almost like screaming. Like anguished screaming as a mothers child is killed
Yet still so beautiful
Something about this choir. They're just something else. Absolutely breathtaking.
They are incredible.
You said it. See separate comment above (or wherever it ends up). Just saw them live in a stroke of luck so huge I don't think anything in my musical life will ever match it. Not even close.
And they are also all very friendly and accessible. I have the chance to sing with them every summer at the Milton Abbey summer festival for 7 years now and it's a blast. This year it was cancelled due to the pandemic and that's a huge moment of my summer missing
Yes I find it equally breath taking. But lets hope they don’t lol
I vote this the best performed/recorded version of this song in existence. The acoustics are exquisite and the balance between men and women is perfect. World class voices on display here.
Mass of the ages got me here. How hauntingly beautiful
And MOTA is one of the most beautiful documentaries I've ever seen. So haunting the begining of episode 3
Same
I've never heard a soprano with such control and clarity. The men are steady throughout and it's difficult to detect any breathing. Beautiful work.
America should get a full-time queen and Queen I ought to be that soprano.
Andrea Gaines is a wonder.
I listen because of the exquisite sound of them breathing out.😊
We should all support these musicians. Through their artistry and craft - in normal times or pandemic terror - they give us light and beauty. They make us better, so we owe them.
I love all their voices especially the soprano. Her voice is soft, gentle, clean, and clear.
There is no musical instrument more compelling and profound than the tactfully constructed human voices in harmonic unison!
Every vowel: unified. Every consonant: unified. Every timbre carefully orchestrated. This is THE premiere choral ensemble! Thank you, Voces8!
This sweet yet somber lullaby played in my head while seeing the Pieta in Rome last year. Very powerful. Jesus’ entire life pointed to the Cross and the Blessed Mother knew that her heart would be pierced yet still beautifully and joyfully ponders. This song portrays this paradox so perfectly.
Thank you for your rich comment. May God bless you!
Certainly captures the mystery of life, the Cross and suffering.
It appears that I have a bona-fide obsession: I've listened to this on repeat about 20 times and have been listening for about an hour and a half. I just can't get over it. I don't know if someone should send help or join me.
It is a haunting yet beautiful piece of music. Look up it’s origins sometime, and it may touch and haunt you even more.
I'll join you. It sets the most beautiful mood
@@letsnotgothere6242 Me too. Listening to this after the death of someone close. Music delivers where words fail.
This melody is an earworm, like Pachelbel's Canon. Just go with it. It's so much better having this banging around in your head than commercials and top 40.
joined
I am always near bursting into tears with this song. I was born on the day of the Feast of Holy Innocents, which I learned after age 50. I often cry with this beautiful hymn, which will last for as many days as music remains on the Earth. My church choir recorded it during Covid outdoors in a parking garage and it's equally beautiful and haunting. Bless us.
Diction, Vowels, Balance, Rhythm, Intonation, etc etc.....perfection
It’s just stunning
How can something like this exist and people not know about it?
Stroke of luck to find it on Spotify
@ 3:40 final soprano descant captured perfectly in passing by cameraman - props to the crew for a beautiful production.
Hauntingly beautiful piece and rendition, and the soprano solo is otherworldly.
Get this: I had been listening for a few months, increasing in fascination with them to the point of near-obsession with the absolutely insane level of what they're doing, and then I looked at the schedule for a local privately sponsored concert series at a huge Methodist cathedral downtown where I live, a city of about a quarter million in the middle of farm and ranch country (but with a major university with a well-regarded school of music, so we _do_ get some seriously good artists here), and...they were on the schedule for a Christmas concert. Not until the point when they walked out and took their places last Sunday evening did I think it was actually going to happen.
If you're wondering (like a lot of people have) whether they could possibly be this good live, they are. It was pure indescribable beauty. I still can't believe they were here.
The selection was the best for any Christmas concert I've ever been at. And yes, they did this Stopford piece (and another one too) -- this haunting, pure, transforming thing.
Got to meet them afterward, even. I'm still wondering how it happened.
Imagine if Philip Stopford replied to you comment - haha! So glad you enjoyed my pieces! Philip :-)
@@philipstopford Well, that would be brilliant, if a thing like that happened. ;-)
I'm a fan for life. Not that you needed more, but still.
This piece has so many right decisions you can't count them all, but the one that encircles all of them is this insistence on going to the heart of what makes the melody and the meaning in that carol what they are. Cannot get it out of my mind. No complications, no technical embellishment, just simple and pure, like the poem that finds worlds in exactly the right few words. I just think it's so rare to find a composer who understands the heart of the thing like this.
@@emncaity Thank You :-)
stephen f such an amazing experience! I am an Ohioan and plan on attending their concert in Rochester, NY. I pray they sing this. Philip Stopford...absolutely brilliant composition. Thank you!!! Brings me to tears.
@@ericabunce1489 "Amazing" is only a start. I don't usually gush about stuff like this. I was a vocal major at one time and am totally comfortable talking about good performances that had flaws, and still enjoying them tremendously. This was another thing entirely, it really was.
I'm serious about this: Send them a message on FB and a tweet to ask them to be sure to sing "Lully" in Rochester.
For 25 years my school had a very good choir and 5th grade teacher who was one of the best musicians I will ever know this was one of his favorite pieces and we sang it every year at one of our special Christmas productions as of this fall 2024 I am one of the last 50 sum students who had him fully. this year we told our new choir director that no matter what we would sing this song at Christmas in his honor.
Because I needed a good cry today. That was gorgeous. I sang this song many years ago but a very different arrangement. This arrangement is stunning. Thank you. Always.
Yes, this is Stopford's rearrangement of the classic Coventry Carol. Absolutely haunting, especially in the hands of master choristers like Voces8.
Now I'm going to have to find the other arrangement lol.
Lol I need a good cry frequently also.
No eye to eye contact must be very difficult...
A recent devastating loss led me back to this performance which I first heard about a year ago. Heartbreakingly beautiful and so emotional, perfection in vocal music. I cried and was comforted.
we sang this in choir last year for adjudication. the most beautiful piece ive performed to this day.
This song is an emotional part of the Christmas Story. Not a part we like to think about. But a part of it, nonetheless.
Amazing interpretation of this song!
28th December. Childermas.
I was legit crying like I haven't cried in a long time.
My soul ached for these children.
My favorite setting of this carol, sung by my favorite choral group. Deceptively simple in construction, ridiculously difficult to pull off to this level. Wonderful
I’m not catholic but I love catholic and orthodox hymns their so beautiful
This song is so simple, yet not very easy. You have to sing with a hollow sound and a straight tone which can be hard. They did a very good job. So crisp, clear, powerful, yet gentle. And nice dynamics and emotion 👍
Yes vibrato strictly forbidden !😉
Unbelievable - Lets pray for peace as long as we are living - How could it be done better than through such a wonderful soulful vocal performance
My choir director told us we were doing this piece for our Christmas concert this year and showed us this video. I teared up. I'm so so excited to learn and perform this!
Ayyy. Our madrigal choir is singing this this season. And it’s sooooo beautiful
Ayyy you talking about St Henry Chamber
My Acapella group is singing this and I’m so excited to perform it
Its such a beautiful song 😊
The usual flawless ensemble and intonation by VOCES8, which should not be taken for granted, but this is also some brilliant camera work, making the singers seem to spin even as they stand still ( I had to wonder if it were more difficult to be singing separated and facing away from each other.) and beautiful use of the late afternoon sun through one window to highlight the singers.A gorgeous video!
My goal is to build a small ensemble of passionate vocalists like Voces8. I absolutely love to listen to and sing choral music of every era.
Go do it! My best wishes for you!
Same here, it's been hell finding singers interested and even mildly competent in this style.
It would be fun to be in a group singing these songs.
I’d certainly be interested! That’s been my dream too! 😃
go for it, bro!
In this utterly crazy world that we’re living in at the moment, Voce8 bring calm and serenity
Simply the most beautiful song I’ve heard …. Ever …. sung perfectly! Thank you V8
Hats off to that Soprano. So pure.
This is what heaven sounds like.
This is a very sad song. In Heaven all sadness is washed, cleansed and transformed into joy. Which you could argue that this song does.
There must be fools that run around on UA-cam clicking "thumbs down" randomly on whatever they come across because there is no way, unless you're utterly tone deaf or just plain malicious, that a person could honestly find this anything less than deeply, hauntingly beautiful!
It's bots unfortunately, but you're correct
I can’t stop listening to this.
I return and listen to this on a weekly basis. This is the best rendition I have ever heard. Hauntingly beautiful! Well done!
Mastery at so many levels. And serious thanks to the recording engineers for doing this justice....
There's something truly special about this group and this song... It's utterly ethereal and heart breakingly beautiful. Was it recorded in this setting... Or a recording studio?
Seagreentangerine it was recorded in that setting. The acoustics are amazing, are they not?!
@@Moggie-qn3pw There isn't a recording studio on the planet better than where they are. Sublime
I held my first grandchild for the first time yesterday and this song kept resonating in my heart. Her precious cooing is somehow entwined in these gorgeous tones! ❤ Stunningly beautiful!
3:39 oh man wow....the purity of that one note. Incredible.
i've re-watched just that one part about a dozen times. Her voice is so beautiful.
@kotetsu131
Listen to their recording of the Miserere Mei by Allegri. Wear a sweater, because it will send chills through you.
It made me dizzy when I heard it 😭💞
Yeah, that's Eleanor. She's a gem of a person too.
Dear Voces 8,
Thank you! This is my all-time favourite song in your entire repetoire of - all my 'favourites'!!!
The words and music, and your combined musical skills in performing them, in this wonderful space - spaced out in the circle as you are - and all singing out into God's world (within and beyond the physical space) - this message of utter pain, evil and grief, yet, with an equally complete assurance & message of hope that "where two or more are gathered together in my name, there am I in [your] midst!".
Truly a song and message for us all, for eternity!
I was delighted (finally) to get to see and hear you in person in Buxton (Derbyshire) just a few days' ago, & to say hello!!!
I am still savouring the experience!!
Thank you all, for all you do to bring such moving, and uplifting experiences through music, words and voice.
Your - forever - Aussie fan, (in 'sunny!!' Buxton (not!))
Darcey xxxxxxxx
PS: Get well soon Andrea - your stand-in was fabulous, but you are simply my personal best of the best!!! (& heart-throb!!)
PPS: I discovered that I'll be singing as a 'real (low) bass' with the Halle choir at the Proms (later on the same day (Sunday 21 July), when you will all be singing your own Proms (while we are travelling down from Manchester!!!)
We are saying farewell to our much loved Sir Mark Elder, & singing a specially commissioned choral work by Sir James MacMillan: we love it, and hope to sing it with joy and love and fond forever-memories. (It will be broadcast live on BBC 4 TV!! (I'll be the good looking (fe-male) singer among the 'male' basses!!!)
I do hope you may get to see and hear us: we'll be giving of our best!!
This is absolutely gorgeous! I love Philip Stopford's music. VOCES8 are outstanding!
Why do most Christmas Carol's make me cry? Powerfully beautiful.
i be askin myself the same thing. and i dont know the answer.... when im alone with certain music is the only time I can cry
@@_215JuiceCredo che la nascita di un bambino porti sempre con sè commozione. Un bambino e' un dono del Cielo, le nostre lacrime di gioia ringraziano il nuovo esserino, augurandogli una vita bella🎶🌿🌟
@@_215JuiceSame!
Lully, lulla, lully, lulla
Lully, lulla, lully lulla
By by, lully lullay
Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child
By by, lully lullay
O sisters too,
How may we do
For to preserve this day
This poor youngling
For whom we sing,
By by, lully, lullay?
Lully, lulla, lully lulla
By by, lully lullay
Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child
By by, lully lullay
Herod, the king,
In his raging,
Charged he hath this day
His men of might
In his own sight
All young children to slay
Lully, lulla, lully, lulla
By by, lully lullay
Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child
By by lully lullay
That woe is me,
Poor child for thee!
And ever morn and day
For thy parting
Neither say nor sing
By by, lully lullay!
Lully, lulla, lully lulla
By by, lully lullay
Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child
By by, lully lullay
By by, lully lullay
For the Feast of the Holy Innocents
Think of the children in Palestine... My soul aches for them
Yes.
Exquisite on every level. Each voice is beautiful. The fact that you sing absolutely in sync while facing AWAY from each other astounds me. The acoustics of the church are luscious. High accolades to VOCES8 recording engineers for their wonderful capture of these voices!
4:19 the bass’ Db with the tenors’ C create one of the most beautiful dissonances i’ve ever heard
My wife comes from Coventry. She lost her sister just after Christmas last year and this Carol means so much to her.
I love this make me cry sometimes but knowing there safe in heaven and where they belong love ur children and protect them
This song just help me to carry on during hard times, loss of autonomy and intense pain. It sounds like an hymn for hope. When I lose faith in humanity that kind of songs that travels through space and time touch my soul. Thank you deeply for this priceless feeling, angels voices.
My high school choir is doing this song and we sound almost as good😅 obviously not as good but damn close
So miss singing in choirs; this is a stunningly beautiful piece, superbly done.
I sang this song in a choir and I was fighting to hold back tears I managed to not break key but it was very difficult .one of my favorite songs
Simply my favourite song in all the world sung by my favourite vocal group in their ultimate member combination ever!!! Thank you.
I love that church. The altar is by Henry Moore.
Such lovely sounds echoing through my heart. I was so disappointed to hear the screaming advertisement from UA-cam before I could adequately think to pause the play. Please UA-cam... rethink what you are doing with these obnoxious advertisements and do not desecrate the solemnity or sanctity of the after-moments of performances such as this miracle of sound. Think harder about what you do. But thank you VOCES8 for sharing this with us.
Kyle Reese: (reciting John Connor's message) Thank you, Sarah, for your courage through the dark years. I can't help you with what you must soon face, except to say that the future is not set. You must be stronger than you imagine you can be. You must survive, or I will never exist...
crying because my choir sang this song last year and i cried on stage the last time we sang it.
Honest question, why did you cry? What makes us react this way to such beauty?
@@CamoFlex Perhaps the tragedy of the story compounded by the haunting way the brilliant writing brings it to life?
@@CamoFlex This music is a picture of a mother's mourn for her children assassined by Herod's order, during the persecution he made because of the announcement he received by the Wise Men of the born of the King of Jews. All kids younger than 2 were killed at Bethlehem. This music puts us in the scene, make us participate in this grieving, the last goodbye for a child who will never grow.
I think it makes us cry even without knowing the lyrics, which I hadn’t understood until today (I am not English). It’s the emotion we feel when we listen to such beautiful song performed by this amazing choir. Something happens inside us that triggers the tears coming to our eyes. This is just pure emotion, touches our soul and we recognise it
I just re-watched this many times again tonight while trying to catch up on some work. The entire piece & performance is magnificent and simply world class... but then the descant comes in at 3:40 and nothing else matters anymore. It happens every. single. time.
That is so lovely it hurts.
This is by far my favourite piece of theirs. The harmonies are breathtaking and slightly mysterious- stunning!
Agreed. Earth Song is my second favorite of theirs.
This performance is beyond moving. The line "All young children to slay" brings tears to my eyes every time. The way they hold back at "all young children" and then bring out the word "slay" with a sharp, bladelike "s" and intense tone is exquisite. I cannot stop coming back here.
So beautiful; this brings me to the brink of tears every time I hear it. Thanks to Eleanor for singing the descant so effortlessly; you float to the high "Ab" magnificently and flawlessly, while not rushing it. Thanks to all for the exquisite performance. Many thanks to you and Mr. Stopford for bringing the pain behind the biblical text to memory in an awesome and simply wondrous way: it causes one to think and meditate. I'd give you a thousand "likes" for this performance if I could. God bless you all.
Voces8 --- exquisite sensitive choral singing that comes from each one of your souls. Absolutely a personal listening experience every time you sing. Seamless glorious sound beyond words. This is a beautiful composition that is sung with sincerity and a command of musical interpretation, blend, pitch, lyrics and dynamics. Thk you!
If you are in any kind of pain listen to VOCES8, it will definitely heal you. Wow!!!!!!!!!
Oh, Matt that's true. Even I was the member of the University Chember Choir - Voices 8 are really excellent, we can feel their souls and hearts. Thanks.
You are masters! I love your technic and tone. Thanks for the inspiration!
This lovely haunting setting is quickly becoming a great favorite. Several fellow singers have expressed their great admiration, not only for the music but the superb musicianship of VOCES8. I'm going to press the replay button right now
My school is currently practicing this song in music class for our upcoming concert. So far, it sounds pretty much just like this. Nice job 😃👍
on Christmas 2023 we see the same horrors that happened thousands of years ago. How heartbreaking 💔
Has there ever been vocal music better/more beautiful than what this group produces? I think not. What a joy and blessing, and a healing of heart, to listen.
The most perfect singing group I have ever been blessed to hear.
Just what I needed to go to bed tonight. Thank you.
We sang this in choir
How did they burst out in tears while singing this?!!! it's so sad.
Beautiful beyond words.. warmed my heart ..
Gloriously ethereal!
Stunning. Literally comfort to the soul. I truly hope to hear you all live someday soon!
This is one of the most beautiful choral pieces I've ever heard.
My school choir did this and we sang it for our Christmas concert and a few of us sang it at the March For Life. This is the best song in the world!
I am going through an excruciatingly painful time in my life. I want you to know that I keep coming back to this specific recording. You have blessed me, Voces8. You will never know how much.
Hugs to you. I'm having a hard time, too, and am grateful for beauty like this. A comfort...
Autumn 2020 How I miss singing in person with my choirs....this is heartbreakingly beautiful on many levels today. ❤️😥💔🎵🦠
Yeah same I miss them too 😔
Incredibly moving, just beautiful, saw these guys last year and the quality of the vocals brings a tear to your eyes
Is this available as a recording for purchase? I couldn’t find it.
It is now available on their EP - After Silence II. Devotion.
This looks so much like St. Paul's, George Washington's church, in old New York City. I've attended the annual Christmas celebrations there a few times when I lived in lower Manhattan. I suppose this is a London church, and that St. Paul's is modeled after one of these London churches...
Wow, such exquisite singing and tonal quality feeds my soul. What a deep and meaningful piece. Thank you Philip Stopford and Voces8 for creating this!
Absolutely stunning performance and arrangement.
We are singing this in choir and I really wanna try out for the descant part but my choir teacher last time I tried out for a solo gave me such a big sense of hope made me think I was gonna get it and I practiced and practiced and I felt so confident on it but she gave it to some one else and I know that's life and I don't always get my way it just hurt bc she gave me a big sense of hope and she just crushed it I love my choir teacher but that really hurt
Holy Innocents, pray for us!
Amen
Bless YOU!!
That is SOOOO SWEET!!!😇🌠⭐🌠💐🌼🌸💐🌼🌸💐
I've watched this video dozens of times... 'just now noticed that the drone blew out one of the candles.....
I'm now a lifetime fan of Voce8. thank you so much.
I have sung this piece in a church choir. It is simple but sounds very effective. ps beautiful church well worth a visit - the domed roof was Wren's trial run for St Paul's cathedral.
Exquisite
This is the only Christmas choral work by another composer that I wish I had written myself! It is hauntingly beautiful and so deeply moving.
Sorry, it's mine! ;-)
@@philipstopford Ha! I have a beautiful recording of your carol performed by some of my former pupils/choristers from the Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool. I look forward to singing/directing it again when people can get back together.
So much attention to detail... every note delivered with perfection by each and every member; amazing video capture (drone?); and yes, the dress code matters - it's perfect too. This is an award winning music video... Curious to know if Stopford had a hand in this?
No, I just wrote the music :-)
philipstopford - Yes indeed sir, and the world thanks you ! :-)
@@philipstopford I second TMack409's thanks! Your work is simple and haunting; so is this performance. Both are beautiful.
Also... what is your reaction when you read the comment by Brad Walton, that "...this version has a sort of flaccid sentimentality ..."? Thank you again.
@@JohnS0603 It's just an opinion I don't agree with :-)
@philipstopford, this is such a beautiful arrangement. I've listened and shared repeatedly. I don't know the musician lingo, so please forgive my inability to express myself technically here: I noticed your arrangement bears many similarities to Coldplay's" Viva la Vida". Was it an influence?
This haunting arrangement and flawless execution by Voces8 helped me to understand this carol in a whole new way.